Breast Healthy Diet Recommendations

The core of the diet that is most friendly to breast health is essentially a balanced dietary pattern that "controls inflammation, stabilizes hormones, and controls sugar and lipids." There is no so-called magic food that "eats away nodules", and there are no absolute taboos that will cause illness if you touch it. There is no need to spend a lot of money to buy special breast-protecting health products. Most people can benefit from just adjusting their daily diet structure.

Speaking of this, someone must have asked, can soy milk and tofu be eaten? After all, the saying that "soy isoflavones are phytoestrogens, and eating too much will cause breast hyperplasia" has been widely spread in the past few years. When I went out to the clinic with a breast surgery senior sister, I met a 32-year-old girl who had grade three breast hyperplasia during a physical examination. She was so scared that she didn't dare to touch a soy product for half a year. However, the hyperplasia worsened after a follow-up test. After asking her, I found out that after she gave up soy milk, she drank a cup of full-sugar milk tea every day as afternoon tea, and she always likes to stock up on milky cookies as snacks.

Controversy about soy products has always existed. According to traditional Chinese medicine, people who are deficient in qi and have heavy phlegm and dampness, and who experience abdominal distension and acid reflux when they drink iced soy milk, are indeed not suitable to consume large amounts of soy products to avoid aggravating the accumulation of phlegm and dampness in the body, which may induce breast swelling and pain.； However, large sample studies in modern nutrition have confirmed that if you consume about 30g of soybeans every day (equivalent to 200ml of pure soy milk + 1 small piece of northern tofu), the soybean isoflavones in it can regulate estrogen in both directions - if the estrogen in the body is high, it will help reduce it a little, and if it is low, it can be slightly supplemented. On the contrary, it can help stabilize hormone levels, and will not promote hyperplasia or increase the risk of breast cancer. There is no need to touch it at all.

Compared with whether you should eat tofu or not, what deserves everyone's attention are those "female tonics" that are touted to be amazing. I had a 40-year-old client last year who ate snow clams twice a week in order to fight aging. She went for a physical examination after eating for six months. The breast nodules that had been stable for 2 years suddenly grew 2mm, which scared her and stopped quickly. Nowadays, many health bloggers say that snow clam and wood frog oil are good for women by replenishing qi and blood and nourishing the ovaries. This statement is actually true, but the premise is that you are completely healthy, have no basic breast-related problems, and have no family history of breast cancer. ； Judging from the consensus of clinical nutrition and breast medicine, this type of animal-derived food has very high estrogenic activity. For women with hyperplasia, nodules, or perimenopausal women, eating large amounts for a long time will disrupt hormone levels and increase the risk of disease. There is really no need to take this risk for the so-called "anti-aging". If you are greedy, it is perfectly fine to eat it once or twice a year to try it out. Just don't use it as a daily supplement.

Oh, by the way, there are also products such as collagen peptides and kudzu powder that many people like to buy. If they are pure, there is nothing wrong with them. However, many unscrupulous merchants may add estrogen to them. After taking them, your skin may seem to get better in a short period of time, but in fact, they are particularly harmful to your breasts. Be sure to read the ingredient list before buying, and don’t pay IQ tax.

In fact, you really don’t need to be too deliberate when eating. When I had dinner with breast doctors, I observed their ordering habits. Very few people ordered sweet drinks. They basically chose light tea or lemonade. Pastries and repeatedly fried dishes were rarely used. The meat and vegetables were well balanced. No one specially ordered any "breast-protecting dishes". It was just an ordinary home-cooked meal.

When grocery shopping, buy more cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cabbage, and Chinese cabbage. The indole compounds in them can help regulate estrogen metabolism and are particularly friendly to the breast glands. Some people have said that eating too much cruciferous vegetables can damage the thyroid gland. In fact, as long as you are not a patient with severe hypothyroidism, it is perfectly fine to eat a fistful of vegetables every day, so there is no need to worry.

As for the sweets and fried chicken that everyone is afraid of, you really don’t need to give up completely. The breast nurse next to me will also make an appointment to eat fried chicken and drink milk tea when she is paid. Once or twice a month to relieve the addiction is absolutely fine, as long as you don’t take these as a daily meal - after all, it is high in sugar and high in reflexes. Eating too much fatty food will increase the level of inflammation in the body and make it easier to gain weight. People with a BMI over 24 have a risk of breast problems that is about 30% higher than people with a normal weight. This is supported by clear large-sample research data. Controlling your weight is better than anything else.

Oh, by the way, don't believe in the folk remedies of "boiling dandelion in water to eliminate nodules" or "powdering rose tea to eliminate hyperplasia". I met an aunt before and heard that dandelion can eliminate nodules. She boiled a large pot of it every day and drank it for half a month. After drinking it for half a month, she had gastric bleeding and went to the hospital. The nodules did not get smaller at all, but instead hurt her stomach. Diet is originally an auxiliary function. If nodules or hyperplasia are detected, you should first listen to the doctor's judgment on whether to review and treat the disease. Don't expect to rely on eating to cure the disease.

Speaking of which, there are really not so many rules for a healthy breast diet. On the contrary, I have seen many people staring at this and not eating and touching that every day. They are so anxious that they cannot sleep at night, and are stressed to the point of hormonal disorders. On the contrary, it is much more harmful than drinking a cup of milk tea occasionally. Eating happily and with balanced nutrition is better than anything else.